particle accelerator

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Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

XLight plans to build massive “free electron lasers” powered by a particle accelerator to create a more powerful and precise light source for use in chip fabrication plants, or fabs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

They are created by nuclear fusion reactions in the sun, radioactive decay in nuclear reactors or the Earth's crust or in particle accelerator labs.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

As a symbol of its owner, the hat alone sat on a particle accelerator for the cover of the first Physics Today magazine in 1948.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024

This is still not nearly powerful enough to see strings or curled-up dimensions—viewing strings would require a particle accelerator about 6,000,000,000,000,000 miles around.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife